Martin Dackling

Martin Dackling is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of History, Lund University, with a focus on interdisciplinary research intersecting social, political, legal, and economic history. He serves as Director of Third Cycle Studies for the National Graduate School of History and coordinates the Nordic Heritage Network (DNA).

• Current research explores inheritance, property distribution, and family dynamics within the Swedish nobility and economic elite (1850–1950).
• Previously analyzed agrarian history, family farms (1845–1945), and sibling households (1870–present) in Sweden.

Selected Research Outputs examine themes like:

• Legal frameworks of Swedish fideikommiss institutions
• Economic inequality and inheritance taxation debates
• Agrarian development in Blekinge and Western Sweden

Scientific Awards:

• Qualified Teaching Practitioner (2025)
• Working Member of Faculty Board (2024)
• Wallmar Scholarship (2023)
• Prizes from Gösta Bergs Memorial Fund (2014) and Pris för förtjänt vetenskapligt arbete (2014)

As co-leader of the Genealogies of Old Wealth project (2025–2027), funded by the Swedish Research Council, Dackling investigates wealth persistence in Sweden’s elite. He also supervises PhD students and contributes to public discourse on historical inequality.